"Pebble" Beach. Why is it called "Pebble Beach"? I can understand the desire to make sure nobody expects sand--the only big chunk of sand between Carmel and the southern edge of Monterey Bay comes at the (beautiful) Asilomar State Beach.
But I don't see anything here that I would describe as a "pebble beach"...
Posted by DeLong at October 09, 2002 12:49 PM | Trackback... except that the founding company was itself named "Pebble Beach Company". But I couldn't figure out which is the chicken and which is the egg...
Posted by: Jean-Philippe Stijns on October 10, 2002 12:15 PMWhat you see there now is not even what I remember from when I was a kid spending a lot of time there (1960 or so). What is now the "Inn at Spanish Bay" was a huge sand dune, compete with lake large enough to swim in, and a lot of commercial machinery for taking the sand away that we weren't supposed to walk across but did because it was so much fun and so beautiful. And there was a lovely sand beach near the Cypress Point golf course that was destroyed in a storm, about 1964 as I recall. And the rocks were real, and you could risk your neck on them. Sic transit.
For what it's worth, some of this is documented in a Joan Crawford silent film, I believe "Our Dancing Daughters."
Since I don't know anything about economics I thought I would post this.
Also, I believe the lake, or a larger one from Victorian times, is illustrated on a mural in Pacific Grove.
Gene O'Grady
Posted by: Gene O'Grady on October 10, 2002 03:33 PM